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What makes Johnson's position worse, is that he did so having undermined May using the very same concerns he then threw under the bus. You can't escape the conclusion that despite your protests, he knew full well that the bulk of his Brexit audience did not consider NI for one moment and cared even less. To them they are an unecessary consideration and should just do as they are told.
The setting of the trap goes right back to the EU's insistence upon the sequencing, to which May should never have agreed. Johnson, having spent his first term with his back against the wall, had got his majority by the time he signed the NI Protocol. He should never have done so, though it must be acknowledged that the result may ultimately have been no FTA at all, lean or otherwise.